The New York TimesEngaged in a dispute with Beijing in the South China Sea and battling Australia over migrant boats, the Indonesian authorities are sounding the alarm over another pressing issue: Pokémon.
Government officials, including leaders of the country's security forces, are warning that Pokémon Go, the new, globally popular location-based mobile game, is a national threat that could enable its enemies to gain access to top-secret data and penetrate sensitive government and military sites.
READ MORE

GIS UserFinal preparations are underway at Lockheed Martin to ship DigitalGlobe's WorldView-4 earth imaging satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base for a Sept. 15 launch.
The Lockheed Martin team is completing final satellite testing and checkout before shipment. Testing includes calculating the weight and center of gravity of WorldView-4, completing a health check of major systems, and testing out image collection and downlinking capability.READ MORE

Directions MagazineWith the memory of the Dallas and Orlando shootings still fresh in our minds, many of us have been asking what we can do to feel, and be, safer on the streets in our daily lives. Our fear is very real, but luckily, so are the opportunities to address and overcome it, with GIS and GPS systems playing an interesting role. Although not yet capable of preventing violence, they are at least capable of helping us to escape it.
READ MORE

Smart Grid NewsBefore most organizations implement new technology, they must complete a mandatory series of calculations to ensure a good return on investment, or at least a positive public, social or environmental effect. As the technologies involved become more complicated, however, so too do the ROI and benefit calculations.
Smart grid technology is one of these highly complex areas that make investment calculations very difficult. READ MORE

Inside GNSSWhen we're using a mobile location-based application such as getting driving directions from Google Maps, it's not surprising to see advertisements from local businesses showing up in our browsers. Customized advertising, after all, is Google's bread and butter.
But as owners of GNSS-enabled mobile devices move around through the world, they are often followed by similar unsolicited offers and advertising from apparently random sources.
READ MORE

GPS WorldThe seventh China Satellite Navigation Conference met in May in Changsha, capital of Hunan province in south-central China. Chairman Mao attended high school and teaching college here, and the city has many monuments and stories about his younger days.
This was the seventh different host city for CSNC, as the China Satellite Navigation Office spreads the prestigious conference among various provinces.
READ MORE

Point of BeginningIt used to take Questar Gas inspectors half an hour to collect pipeline assets on a site and then eight weeks to produce a final map of the work. Today, using GNSS technology, data collection takes 10 minutes and the map is available instantly. "We need accuracy we can rely on, so GNSS technology is gold to us," says Tren Giles, operations supervisor at Questar Gas.
READ MORE

Sensors & SystemsA researcher at Arizona State University has discovered how to control multiple robotic drones using the human brain.
A controller wears a skull cap outfitted with 128 electrodes wired to a computer. The device records electrical brain activity. If the controller moves a hand or thinks of something, certain areas light up.
“I can see that activity from outside,” said Panagiotis Artemiadis, director of the Human-Oriented Robotics and Control Lab. READ MORE

Daily MailMost Uber riders know the pain of watching the tiny car in the app drive around in circles before reaching the blue dot.
Now, the ride-sharing giant is teaming up with DigitalGlobe, a vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, "to help identify and improve pickup and drop-off locations."
Using constellation sensors, the duo will access imagery and location intelligence to create high resolution maps of the area — giving drivers the ability to see exactly where you are.
READ MORE